Best LGBT Movies – TRANSGENDER THEMED :
6. BOY MEETS GIRL (2014) ( TRANSGENDER THEMED )
IMDb rating 7.1, 21-year old Ricky ( Michelle Hendley) is a transgender woman living in a small town in Kentucky with big dreams to move to New York and become a fashion designer. She spends most of her time hanging out with her only friend Robby ( Michael Welch ) who has been by her side for the past 15 years.
One day while Ricky is at work, a woman named Francesca ( Alexandra Turshen) walks in, a friendship unexpectedly blossoms, which then turns into an affair.
5. MY LIFE IN PINK (1997) Ma Vie en Rose Belgian ( TRANSGENDER THEMED )
IMDb rating 7.6, The film won Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language film. It tells the story of seven-year-old Ludovic, a child who is seen by family and community as a boy, but consistently communicates being a girl. The film depicts Ludovic’s family struggling to accept this gender expression.
4. TRANSAMERICA (2005) ( TRANSGENDER THEMED )
IMDb rating 7.4, Movie earned 30 awards including a Golden Globe for actress Felicity Huffman and was nominated for 19 further awards, including a Best Actress Oscar. Bree (Felicity Huffman) is less than two weeks away from her sex-change operation, when she learns she has a a seventeen-year-old son, Toby. Bree’s caseworker, however, won’t allow her to proceed with the surgery until she confronts and deals with this new aspect of her life.
3. BOYS DON’T CRY (1999) ( TRANSGENDER THEMED )
IMDb rating 7.5, Hilary Swank earned herself an Oscar for starring in this moving drama. Teena Brandon ( Hilary Swank ), a young transgender, adopts a male identity and becomes romantically involved with Lana, ( Chloë Sevigny ) a single mother. However, he lies to her about his troubled past and sex change.
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Best LGBT Movies – GAY THEMED
2. OTHER PEOPLE (2016) ( GAY THEMED )
IMDb rating 6.8, A struggling comedy writer David (Jesse Plemons), after breaking up with his boyfriend, moves to Sacramento to help his sick mother. The movie takes a darkly comedic look at life as a gay man who loves his family, even when most of them don’t accept him. Living with his conservative father and younger sisters, David feels like a stranger in his childhood home.
1. A SINGLE MAN (2009) ( GAY THEMED )
IMDb rating 7.6, An English professor George (Colin Firth) wants to kill himself after his partner Jim (Matthew Goode) dies in a car accident. Jim’s family won’t acknowledge him. George decides to end his life, but as he prepares to do so, He meet with his students, colleagues and his best friend Charley who might just convince him that there’s more to live for.
